But, if this was so,
whence came the un-cremated skeletons?
[*] At Bungay, in Suffolk, there stood a mound or tumulus, on which
was a windmill. Some years ago the windmill was pulled down, and
the owner of the ground wishing to build a house upon its site,
set to work to cart away the mound. His astonishment may be
conceived when he found in the earth a great number of skeletons
arranged in circles. These skeletons were of large size, and a
gentleman who saw them informed me that he measured one. It was
that of a man who must have been nearly seven feet high. The bones
were, unhappily, carted away and thrown into a dyke. But no house
has been built upon the resting-place of those unknown warriors.
--Author.
Perhaps a subsequent race or tribe had found the chamber ready
prepared, and used it to bury some among them who had fallen in
battle. It was impossible to say more, especially as with one
exception there was nothing buried with the skeletons which would
assist to identify their race or age. That exception was a dog. A dog
had been placed by one of the bodies. Evidently from the position of
the bones of its master's arms he had been left to his last sleep with
his hand resting on the hound's head.
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